Occasionally, I rejoice in my pettiness. Occasionally, I am gleeful because I can be, not for any “good” reason. This is one of those times. When I tell you who he is, the name might seem familiar, although he has, surprisingly, been very quiet as of late. From Raw Story:
A top advisor to President Donald Trump was denied a role as Homeland Security chief of staff out of “concern” for his relationship with DHS Secretary Kristi Noem amid longstanding rumors of the two having an affair, Axios reported Thursday. That top advisor is Corey Lewandowski, a special government employee in the Trump administration currently under investigation by the White House for undercounting work hours and skirting federal law.
Now, isn’t *that* interesting? And currently under investigation by the WHITE HOUSE. There must be some pretty serious things going on that we don’t know about. I look forward to the day when it comes out, because you know it will, one way or another. Someone will leak it. They won’t be able to help themselves. I think sharing in the vindictive joy will be fun!
Kristi is supposedly happily married, by the way. I checked. Otherwise, she’d fit right in with Lauren Ho-bert and MTG. But there are those rumors… right now. I don’t think they’ve actually been *caught* at anything so far, so nothing has been proved.
“Concerns about their relationship led President Trump to nix the idea of allowing Noem to make Lewandowski her chief of staff and instead have him become a (special government employee),” Axios’ Brittany Gibson and Marc Caputo wrote Thursday, citing reports from The Atlantic and the Wall Street Journal verified by the publication. By all accounts, however, Lewandowski has acted much like Noem’s chief of staff, even introducing himself as such in April before DHS issued a correcting statement, saying that he was merely an advisor to DHS.
Yuh huh. I’ll bet. Either they actually *aren’t*, or they’re being excessively careful. Considering her position, and what she *cough* does, they’d better be! Well, but then all she does is look for photo ops, anyhow. Most of them are either disgusting (hello CECOT) or nonsense (hello ICE). Yes, the CECOT picture still bugs me. Seriously now, that was … damn near indescribable. Moving right along…
Lewandowski is frequently seen accompanying Noem, and has been alleged to have gotten “handsy” with Noem in public, and on multiple occasions. This follows another allegation of the Trump advisor having gotten “handsy” with someone in public, though a previous instance landed him a misdemeanor battery charge for allegedly groping a GOP donor’s wife during a charity dinner in 2021.
That’s repulsive. Things to add to the list of “don’t teach this to your children” and she has 3. But they aren’t going away any time soon. More’s the pity.
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“Kristi is supposedly happily married, by the way. I checked. Otherwise, she’d fit right in with Lauren Ho-bert and MTG. But there are those rumors… right now. I don’t think they’ve actually been *caught* at anything so far, so nothing has been proved.”
You “checked?” Where? What was the source? Bobo and MTG were supposed to have been “happily married” to their respective spouses prior to their being elected to their current “jobs” but those facades soon quickly fell by the wayside.
As for Noem’s marriage, I’ve never heard anyone (other than Noem) suggest she’s “happily married” given the “relationship” with Lewandowski has been going on for YEARS. As I recall, there were some GOPers–even some of Drumpf’s closest allies–who felt that Noem could be “compromised” because of her *known* relationship with Lewandowski (who was, I seem to recall, at one time, on the outs with Drumpf). Noem herself tried to put some kind of “distance” between herself and Lewandowski (by falling back on the GOP SOP of “fake news put out by my enemies”).